Ray Ramirez, 20, was killed in Afghanistan on June 1, when his unit was hit by an improvised explosive device, the Defense Department announced last week.

Fellow soldiers and community members saluted the casket on the tarmac at Mather, as Ramirez’s family members wept. Their son was a 2010 graduate of Florin High School in Sacramento, where he was a stand-out baseball player.

He enlisted in the Army two years ago and had been in Afghanistan three months before he died, his father, Jose Ramirez, said last week.